Baseball



WWW 8 TT RN y- May 8,-1 928. J. E. MAYNARD BASEBALL Filed July 6. 1927 Patented May 8, 1928 UNITED STATES PATENT -o1= 1E JOHN E. MAYNARD, 0F PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR ,TO THE DRAPER- MAYNARD COMPANY, OF PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIBE, A CORPORATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Y BASEBALL.

Application filed July 6, 1927. Serial No. 203,760.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in base balls. It is especially intended for application to the construction of socalled indoor and play ground base balls. Balls of this character are of somewhat larger size than the regular outdoor base ball and have a very lively center. The cover is usually made of two panels after the manner of the regular base balls, these panels being sewed together, sometimes with seams sewed fiat after the manner of a regular base ball stitching and sometimes with the seams protruding outwardly. Play balls of this type, that is the indoor or play ground balls, are apt to get out of shape due to the stretching of the leather and themore'the leather stretches the more out of shape the ball will get. On

account of the balls of this type being of: larger size than the regular base balls and having a much more lively center they have a greater tendency to get out of shape than the regular base ball. The object of the present invention is to reinforce the cover by a material which is substantially nonstretchable and which will not interfere with the playing qualities of the ball and which is invisible to outside View.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the novel features thereof will be pointed out and clearly defined in the claims at the close of this specification 7 Fig. 1 is a view partly in section of a ball embodying the invention with the cover partly broken away. i

Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the outer face of one of the panel members of the cover before it is attached to the ball.

Fig. 3 is a plan View of the inner face of the panel member shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. i is an enlarged fragmentary sec tional view taken on line 4-4, Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, an uncovered portion of the ball is shown at 10 and the leather portion of the cover at 11. 12; and

12 are the two panel portions of the cover of the usual contour of baseball covers.

Each panel member comprises an outer portion 11 of leather and an inner or lining member 13 of thin fabric or other substantially non-stretchable material of similar any suitable means, preferably being secured thereto by paste as shown at 17. It is also preferably further secured by a double line of stitches 18. The cover is secured to the ball by stitches 16, the threads passing through the thread holes 15 in the usual manner of sewing the two panels of the bail together. As the thread of the seaming stitches 16' passes only through the leather and not through the lining, this allows for the natural give of the leather at the edges so that the seam will remain much smoother upon the ball than if the lining extended to the edge of the leather and the seam passed through the lining as well as through the leather. V

The lining not only reinforces the leather, but prevents the cover from stretching and thereby aids materially in preventing the ball fromgetting' out of shape and adds substantially tothe life of the ball.

What I claim is: s

1. A baseball having acover composed of a plurality of panels'of leather seamed together at their edge -each panel having lining of thin material substantially non stretchable, said lining being secured to the inner face of the leather panel, the margin 1 of the leather panel extending beyond the,"

stitches around the margin of the lining, 10

the margin of the leather panel extending beyond the margin of the lining and the seams by which the said leather panels are sewed together passing through said marginal portions of the leather panels Without 15 passing through the lining.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOHN E. MAYNARD. 

